Express your opinion whether the French king Charles deservedly received the nickname “great”.

We are talking about the king of France, who ruled from 768 to 814. He deservedly received the nickname the Great, because everything is known in comparison, and there were few rulers of this magnitude in the early Middle Ages.

The reasons were as follows:

Political. He received the imperial crown from the pope in 800 and became the second emperor in Europe after the Byzantine one. He managed to take control of a huge territory, from Dalmatia and modern Hungary in the east to the Pyrenees in the west, from Corsica to the North Sea coast.
Cultural. Large-scale stone construction – cathedrals and palaces, as well as the Carolingian Renaissance.
Strengthening the army, diplomacy, successfully fighting the Saxons and Vikings.